Category: Science Writing

• I Wrote: How You May Be Eating Plastic and Fibers with Your Fish

  Plastics aren’t the only thing that fish are eating; now they are consuming fibers (from our clothes washing machines) too. I wrote about a new study on the subject on what’s in fish stomachs—and what that may mean for human beings’ health—in my latest article for Mental Floss. In short, “the mismanagement of our waste is coming…

  Starre Vartan

  October 18, 2015

  Science Writing, Starre’s Work

  fiber, fish, nature, plastics, science, science writing, study

• I Wrote: 5 Promising Male Birth Control Methods for Mental Floss

  My first article for Mental Floss was on one of my favorite topics: Male Birth Control. I honestly think it would be a better world for men and women if men had more birth control options—women have more than a dozen—men have only 2.

  Starre Vartan

  August 27, 2015

  Science Writing, Starre’s Work

  article, male birth control, mental floss, science